No fan wants to endure an 0-12 season.
It can be tough to watch your favorite team find new (or old) ways to break your heart and shred your hopes out in front of you. But going into the season for Akron, the expectation wasn’t to maintain the status quo of being somewhere between irrelevent and mediocre. Rather, it was to start from the ground up and develop into a legitimate contender.
2019 was the first year for head coach Tom Arth, and he’s brought in a new system and culture to the Zips program which will take time to implement.